Posts Tagged: Saudi Arabia


11
Dec 09

What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…

In a nutshell (Jeff McMahon at True/Slant):

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[US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused global warming. Both of those factors, he said, belong to history.

“Those days are over,” Locke said moments ago in Copenhagen. “What’s required is nothing less than completely redesigning the way we produce and consume energy…. We’re talking about creating an entirely new model of economic growth.”The world has spent a century investing in petroleum infrastructure, Locke said: refineries, pipelines, stations.


23
Sep 09

Grand Unifying Conspiracy Theory

It appears that the entirety of the blogosphere  is staying away from Sibel Edmonds explosive interview in Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, of all places.   This is certainly understandable, given the treasonous accusations she has made.   From the article, via MeFi:

Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.


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Oct 07

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Jun 07

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Apr 07

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Feb 07

Sins of the Past: Afghanistan, the CIA, the Mi-24 ‘Hind’ Attack Helicopter, and the US-made Stinger Missle

I was reading about the flurry of US helicopter downings in Iraq, which echoes back to Afghanistan in an earlier time – namely the USSR occupation that preceeded the fall of the Soviet Union.  I conducted a quick search, looking for US justification from the CIA, stating that by providing Stinger (shoulder-launched) anti-air missles, killing as many as ten soldiers per chopper (currently, about 5.5% of US fatalities are due to helicopter crashes, with only 91 of 172 (2.9%) due to hostile-fire, as sourced from iCasualties), and taking one of the most effective of the Soviets weapons, the Mi-24 Hind Attack Helicopter, out of the theater, would demoralize the Soviets and defeat them in Afghanistan.  Instead, I found a tale that encompasses the CIA, the White Houses of Carter and Reagan, a Congressman, several nations, such as Pakistan, Italy, Israel, Saudi Arabia, among others, the Soviets, and the Afghan mujhahadeen.

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